in the world below water the elements interchange. for some reason i forgot to post this photograph from the fish tanks at bandra. little white pebbles flow down as water in this artificial waterfall.
when air becomes water, water turns into stone.
a fantasy for a miniature world under your control make you feel like god. you have the power to invert the world as you know it and escape from the dreary everyday into the world of fanciful fairy tales.
speaking of fantasies, how could i not mention the quarter of ‘jal bin machli nritya bin bijli’ that we saw yesterday. i had seen the entire film a few years back and wanted to watch the (in)famous snake dance where sandhya writhes away frantically (as only she can) in green black leotards with her hands inside a giant snake hood. this is all on a concrete floor in a village as she fights the killer white peacock and his cohorts who murdered her beige lover snake. meanwhile around this mind bending performance tribal women beat giant drums with their hair.
i love the song picturisations in shantaram films. so much mad genius packed in.
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a bangalore pal is part of this amazing aquarium hobbyist community. they spend their evenings after work and weekends making these elaborate aquariums and growing rare exotic plants in the water. i call it one among the crazy number of amazing secret societies of bangalore! check their web site -
http://indianaquariumhobbyist.com/community/index.php
i had wanted to make a film on them and their obsession with the 'nether world'
sounds like a great idea
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